palestinian triumph and israeli diplomatic defeat as the u.n. overwhelmingly opposed to recognize palestine as a de facto sovereign state upgrading its status in the organization. a new draft constitution based on islamic law gets the seal of approval from egypt's muslim lawmakers with the opposition calling for mass protests to boycott the charter. on the world's most famous whistleblower jewel in the sun promises more astonishing wiki leaks revelations speaks exclusively to our t.v. at the ecuadorian embassy in london. news and much more twenty four seven and you're watching r.t.

palestine has one long awaited state recognition at the u.n. after more than two thirds of members voted in favor of upgrading its status the decision came as a blow to israel and the u.s. who opposed the move calling it counterproductive well correspondent. and activist and filmmaker haifa in gaza have more now on how this historic vote was received in both camps. these ladies certainly are downplaying the significance of this vote although we have seen them would use the kind of rhetoric that they've been acting over the past few weeks and months certainly they're no longer issuing the same kinds of threats that they were before presumably because they understand that this will only further isolate them in the international community the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly said that this vote does not change the reality on the ground the israeli position is that it is a unilateral step by the palestinians they accuse the resolution of being one sided

both the united states and israel are trying to downplay the significance of this vote they certainly all saying that it's not going to change the reality on the ground in this despite the fact that we're hearing in some quarters in the international community and certainly from palestinians themselves that it is a significant step what we're hearing increasingly from commentators around the world is that the united states through its unflinching support for israel has alienated a lot of its old time allies in the united nations susan rice the american ambassador to the united nations after slamming the vote again reiterated the american position that it will not change anything on the ground to a grand pronouncements. and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed today's vote should not be misconstrued by any as constituting eligibility for u.n. membership it does not this resolution does not establish that palestine

is a state and yet talking to the average israeli on the street largely the response here is muted most israelis i've been talking to are actually by and large ignoring this fundamental and historic occasion which is a far cry from the kind of reaction we witnessing on the streets in palestine or indeed let's cross not to hurry fear palestinians are jubilant of course but celebrations of past what exactly are they expecting from this recognition. well this is this there's increased recognition this increase in status in the united nations is a manifestation of increased world international solidarity with the palestinian situation and this will actually bring hopefully a manifest improvement for the palestinians in respect of their access to international law and that ability to have the rule of law applied to their relationship with the state of israel so here in gaza where we just witnessed an

israeli military operation exacted on the gaza strip in which fifty nine children were killed seventeen babies were killed palestinians are hoping that this increase in legal status will deter. a nother on saw like that in which palestinians believe that the crime of facing war crimes committed against the population here in gaza in the west bank they have a situation not with such sort of military violence but they have on the ground direct military occupation they have according to palestinians in palestinian terminology an illegal colonise ation process with illegal settlements being built so that what the hope is in both bits of palestine that is left there will be some practical improvement albeit a small one for them and for their lives. well ramsey the editor of palestine chronicle dot com explains why washington's that middle east rhetoric is now at all odds with the rest of the international community what hillary clinton has actually

said can only be understood within the old context the us is an evil to get out of the rut it's political rot of many years partly the united states its is stuck in its own foreign policy of all it is incapable of adapting to a new middle east to the so-called arab spring to the new realities that are merging from the region it is still trying to side with the israeli lobby. is trying to back right or wrong along with you either that or kind of basically exists within within the american political sphere it's embarrassing day for american foreign policy today yet the persist and they refuse to depart and leave that all started school politics today was this this amazing historic chance for the rest of the international community to challenge the u.s.

and israel and their addicted hearts and to say in one harmonious voice that we do support in principle the establishment of interest in your state well the historic u.n. vote and prospects for pay so the topics of fierce debate and latest edition of crosstalk has a taste of what's coming up here next hour. that's not the way to run an issue of the people who want to have a homeland if people want to have a homeland it's not enough to have declaration you have to build your nation towards that i do think romney has complete lucidity of mind clearly not suffering from outsiders but i'm not sure why he's the problem is the poster noons won't negotiate really throughout the year record the one conclusion you reach the out there on the conclusion is nothing happened it's like the children song that we also on the bus go round and round and the reason nothing happened is because the

postilions. let's apply our international law and resolve the conflict and israel is we reject international law we're going to decide this resolution the conflict on the terms that suit us. egypt is a mr dominated constitutional assembly has passed a new draft constitution opposition leaders are already calling for mass protests against the charter that's based on sharia law saying. cracks down on freedom in this belt true has the details now from cairo the problem really stems from the constituent assembly itself many of the liberal leftists and church representatives actually walked through the constituent assembly to what they said was bullying from the islamist factions that dominated the constitution writing body one of the key issues is the sharia law which many say the articles about sharia law opens interpretation to a very ultra orthodox interpretation and in addition that rights groups are saying

that some articles are really impinging on human rights for example the practice of military trials of civilians which is condemned under international law is actually included in the constitution this has been a point of contention for revolutionaries since january two thousand and eleven this document will go to president morsi today and we expect to see the referee referendum book with a referendum in the next few weeks to day opposition forces a million man marches across egypt and also they are continuing this in and. we really will see probably more escalating violence we've seen on the streets recently because of what they call a power grab by president morsi was referring to a very controversial constitution that gratian be awarded himself sweeping powers rival protest groups the pro and anti war t. and more see who it is we met on you tube streets really is that she was out in a fair amount of violence the last week including actually least one that really people are gearing up for more protests specially as we now have this draft

constitution for people who rightly god's image its image but with the growing unrest in egypt as well as protests in libya tunisia many analysts are now questioning just how much change the arab spring has brought to these countries it's got nature here and there found out there are fears that instead of a better and brighter future these nations may actually be sliding towards a group fate. less than two years after. mohamed morsi granted himself even. more power than his predecessor head to the special to create president morsi make sure that no court can challenge his decisions. the president's power grab brought hundreds of thousands of egyptians onto the street with a shared says that their aspirations were being betrayed. unfortunately replace the corrupt regime of mubarak with a regime that is more strict and violent the draft version of egypt's new constitution inserts new islamic references into the country's system of government

and keeps in place an article defining the principles of korea as the main source of legislation when they're not in power there are moderates. in the united states and washington the various islamic organizations that dominate in the us but when they come into power they put a lot grip on power it is socially establish an islamic dictatorship the sense of betrayal and disappointment has not left the street so tunisia the first country to witness an arab spring uprising unemployment there skyrocketed in the wake of the revolution and is now at eighteen percent. our demands are the same as those that have been made during the revolution we want jobs development in the region and the equitable sharing of wealth we also demand the dismissal of the governor who has done nothing for this region but it's comprised the development here as the arab spring unfolded less than two years ago the obama administration jumped on the bandwagon of the revolutions hoping to forge better alliances with the new leaders

. in libya the u.s. prompted the change with airstrikes and arms supplies were seen policymakers here in washington trying very hard to present the arab spring as a success story up until september washington had the revolution in libya check as a foreign policy victory for president obama after all the u.s. provided most of the firepower which led to the capture and the killing of moammar gadhafi only after the tragic attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi and the murder of the american ambassador there. come back into the spotlight and they can also we see there now flies in the face of that success story narrative protests frequently disrupt operations at the main oil refinery in western libya while the new government in libya has little or no control over the numerous militia groups the civil war has left the country shredded to pieces with radical islamic taking advantage of the chaos. in the post-revolutionary north african countries despair and violence every place the

hopes of the arab spring in washington i'm going to check out. now coming up as the world media speculates on that during the summer health problems the whistleblower himself is too focused on his mission. do you think that's something that's just painful kate could ever happen again. what's the time next year. with. he gets inside the ecuadorian embassy in london. to revelations to come plus. this is all useless we have already given the so much money and they should start to be. good for many germans are becoming increasingly angry and digging greece out of its debt home this country's m p's approved another aid package for the struggling state but on more after a short break. a

lovely quiet morning a family jet li sleeps in district heights maryland when fifty armed f.b.i. agents storm the house and guns drawn despite the family pleading that they were unarmed the law enforcement agents opened fire on a weaponless teenager my asian huli thankfully sholay suffered minor flesh wounds but the key issue is that it remains unknown as to why the house was stormed so here in america for no reason guys in black uniform storm someone's house a loaded some rounds and left with no justification or explanation yes the family still doesn't know why this happened the f.b.i. is remaining silent you know i understand that there are some very bad individuals out there doing some very bad stuff at home but if you don't even really know whose house you're storming or why you're storming it then maybe you should lay off the siege for a while you know what take a few minutes to think it over have

a cup of coffee and maybe even do a little google search about the fourth amendment but that's just my opinion. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. change corporations rule the day. live

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from our time our t.v. is not required to watch our team all you need is your mobile device to watch our team any time and. welcome back now a german m.p.'s have given a green light to the latest spain out deal for greece which remains at the center of the european debt crisis this comes amid growing frustration in the use powerhouse both among politicians and the people about the costs the country has to bear for the rescue well arty's up into all of this now from berlin with more on this what does this say package essentially mean for the eaves biggest economy. well what it means is that germany will be giving more financial aid towards greece now we saw m.p.'s voting in the reichstag with four hundred seventy three saying yes to this aid package one hundred saying no and eleven stand shin's now what this

does mean no and it's been talked about throughout the week is next year alone it could cost germany over seven hundred million euros but we are seeing the politicians at least giving their support financial support towards greece however that support isn't being particularly backed up by some of the electorate here people on the streets of germany suggesting that perhaps greece should be left to its own devices. that is enough because we won't see this money ever again. ok but. at some point it should be stopped it's high time they were capable of helping themselves we're ok for now but some day we could also go broke this arlen specter. this is all you know we have already given at least so much more and they should start today. and there's nothing more.

well they were people speaking just outside of the reichstag but that seems to be reflected across the country a recent poll taken by a german television station says that forty six percent of germans want to see greece left to default left up to its own devices however the politicians in here in germany have voted through this next round of financial aid but it wasn't smooth sailing we saw a very confident looking angle a merkel posting her vote but that belies some rumblings of revolt within her own party in her own coalition on friday we saw her rolling out the big guns with finance minister wolfgang schauble of taking the floor and saying that it would be irresponsible for politicians not to vote on this new aid package however there were opposition figures who also took the floor saying that well this was just the latest in a case as series of money that was being good money being thrown after bad essential and they screech was eventually going to need further eight was going to

need a haircut and all of this said by mr schauble it was pretty much nonsense. but we need to remember this vote today disposed on friday was far more than just a vote on a greek aid package this was being looked at as a. test of just how much power and how much respect angle a merkel is still able to to to gain from the german political class here she has in fact pushed through this package that she wanted but it didn't look too good for a little while there was people saying no no no we are just going to rubber stamp any things put before us you've got to prove this is in the best interests of germany of course all of this coming around as we end what will be the campaigning season ahead of a general election here in germany next year so it does seem that the german politicians at least are on the side of angela merkel and trying to get. more financial aid to greece now that is there an increasing amount of the electorate

who seem to be suggesting they should be cut loose you know political rumblings indeed artie's piece all of the reporting from berlin thank you. now the world's most famous whistleblower during the sun is again in the headlines as a media speculates on the state of his health meanwhile asuncion self is promising more sensational classified disclosures he spoke to r.t. is laura smith at the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been holed up for almost six months now. as any journalist working in london now is i'm pretty familiar with standing outside the ecuadorian embassy waiting for julian assange to come out and talk from the balcony just to my right here but this evening i've been inside that resort embassy to talk to judy and i saw he's recently written a book called cypherpunks freedom and the future of the internet and that's what he really wants to talk about at the moment and we did talk about that we talked about

how he sees this increase in state surveillance is hugely damaging for the entire fabric of society how companies and governments can minute the internet for data that is placed there willingly but unwittingly by citizens all over the world let's just listen into a little bit of what he said about that we all think of. some kind of proponent rome where we can throw our ideas and communication with writers and books and i exist somewhere out there actually there exists. who are physically controls this controls the realm of our ideas and communications and whoever is able to sit on those communications channels can intercept entire nations and that's. julian assange has been cooped up in the embassy behind me for more than five months now and you may have heard reports in the media in the last couple of days that he's developed a lung condition but in fact his people are saying that there is no lung condition

although he does have quite a pervasive cough actually looks pretty pale quite thin but he seems to be in high spirits but the possibility the specter of a serious illness has raised questions about what the government of this country would do if he was still with their loud medical help to go into the embassy would if he had to get out to go to hospital would they use that as an excuse to arrest him he at this current moment doesn't want to talk about his personal situation he's much more interested in talking about the he's just read. off the back of the program that you made but nevertheless. about his general held up when i asked him whether there could ever be a leak as significant as cable gates of which means of course just in the two year anniversary he said that we should watch this space do you think that something as large as cable kate could ever happen again and that would have a similar end. but what's the time next year

we'll go into it but. there we should watch out for that you can see my whole interview with judy later on in the program that is laura smith there and she just said the full interview with julian assange and she's coming your way in about ten minutes time. for some other international news for you now the syrian government says it has regained control of the road leading to the nation's main international airport mark after intense fighting with. several international airlines suspended flights to them ask us because of the battles and services were also down in the country the government and the opposition i mean each other for the blackout. british prime minister david cameron has rejected recommendations for a new independent legally backed media watchdog cameron fears any political involvement in such a body could inhibit the freedom of the press or suggestions were made in the widely anticipated leveson report on media standards in the u.k.

divisions have emerged within the coalition government with the prime minister supporting a report saying a state about the body to regulate the purse. us private bradley manning excused of leaking secret army data has testified during a pretrial hearing he says that detention conditions made him feel like a doomed caged animal and brought suicidal thoughts well robert naiman of just foreign policy says such damning accounts of his detention could impact the case against him. the. drama was clearly that the government prosecution was fighting with and really be non-cooperative. attorney along the hope of clearly of manning in this tourney. and to the idea that he's been punished enough doesn't need to be punished more does need to be punished much more. and also that the defense has

some leverage over the government since the more details come out about his treatment tension the more embarrassed the united states will be internationally they want to pressure the u.s. government to make a deal. you know a lot more punishment for bradley. but we'll have more international news in just thirty minutes time and after a short break now we'll have our interview with john in a such. the sun rises over what seems like and lost forest but here in new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of light of all stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. mortgages

both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forest of the more skewed region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy lager set up trucks making them hard to reach an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable to member over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests or it's in our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our

dream but as soon as we find fall it tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers it's easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that there's twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quite. in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he's overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess

the government now is they started shooting for more of forest legislation source since two thousand so a new forest called and according to. the guys in the in the forest through the still forest courts still doesn't work just as you . would with no one tries to stop them in just five years the forest will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do. it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. tonight

i'm inside the ecuadorian embassy talking to judy and i saw she's been cooped up here for almost six months while he's been here though he hasn't been sitting idle he's written a new book called cypherpunks freedom and the future of the internet it's actually based on one of the shows that he made for t.v. now you're saying basically that the internet can enslave us but the internet is just a thing right it's a soulless a piece of equipment who was a real in slave. the people who control the interception of the internet and to some degree also physically control would be the warehouses and international fiber optic lines so we all think of the internet as some kind of tonic realm where we can throw out ideas and communications and with pages and books and they exist somewhere out there actually they exist on web servers in new york will never be or in beijing and the information.